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Donna Huanca
CAAC Sevilla, Spain.
November 13, 2025 – April 5, 2026.
Image by Pepe Morón.CAAC Sevilla, Spain.
November 13, 2025 – April 5, 2026.
Image by Pepe Morón.
CAAC Sevilla, Spain.
November 13, 2025 – April 5, 2026.
Image by Pepe Morón.
CAAC Sevilla, Spain.
November 13, 2025 – April 5, 2026.
Image by Pepe Morón.
CAAC Sevilla, Spain.
November 13, 2025 – April 5, 2026.
Image by Pepe Morón.
CAAC Sevilla, Spain.
November 13, 2025 – April 5, 2026.
Image by Pepe Morón.
The Metropolitan Museum of New York, NY, USA, 2025.
Photo by Don Stahl.
The Metropolitan Museum of New York, NY, USA, 2025.
Photo by Don Stahl.
The Metropolitan Museum of New York, NY, USA, 2025.
Photo by Don Stahl.
The Metropolitan Museum of New York, NY, USA, 2025.
Photo by Don Stahl.
The Metropolitan Museum of New York, NY, USA, 2025.
Photo by Don Stahl.
The Metropolitan Museum of New York, NY, USA, 2025.
Photo by Don Stahl.
Nitsch Foundation, Vienna, Austria. 2024.
Nitsch Foundation, Vienna, Austria. 2024.
Nitsch Foundation, Vienna, Austria. 2024.
Nitsch Foundation, Vienna, Austria. 2024.
Zuzeum Art Centre, Riga, Latvia. 2024. Image by Dasha Trofimova.
Zuzeum Art Centre, Riga, Latvia. 2024. Image by Ansis Starks.
Zuzeum Art Centre, Riga, Latvia. 2024. Image by Ansis Starks.
Zuzeum Art Centre, Riga, Latvia. 2024. Image by Ansis Starks.
Zuzeum Art Centre, Riga, Latvia. 2024. Image by Ansis Starks.
Zuzeum Art Centre, Riga, Latvia. 2024. Image by Ansis Starks.
Faurschou, New York, USA. 2023.
Courtesy Faurschou and Peres Projects.
Photo credit: Elsa Kostic.
Faurschou, New York, USA. 2023.
Courtesy Faurschou and Peres Projects.
Photo credit: Elsa Kostic.
Faurschou, New York, USA. 2023.
Courtesy Faurschou and Peres Projects.
Photo credit: Elsa Kostic.
Faurschou, New York, USA. 2023.
Courtesy Faurschou and Peres Projects.
Photo credit: Elsa Kostic.
Faurschou, New York, USA. 2023.
Courtesy Faurschou and Peres Projects.
Photo credit: Elsa Kostic.
Faurschou, New York, USA. 2023.
Courtesy Faurschou and Peres Projects.
Photo credit: Elsa Kostic.
Faurschou, New York, USA. 2023.
Courtesy Faurschou and Peres Projects.
Photo credit: Elsa Kostic.
Space K, Seoul, South Korea, 2023.
Courtesy of Space K Seoul.
Photo by JunHo Lee.
Space K, Seoul, South Korea, 2023.
Courtesy of Space K Seoul.
Photo by JunHo Lee.
Space K, Seoul, South Korea, 2023.
Courtesy of Space K Seoul.
Photo by JunHo Lee.
Space K, Seoul, South Korea, 2023.
Courtesy of Space K Seoul.
Photo by Onart Studio.
Space K, Seoul, South Korea, 2023.
Courtesy of Space K Seoul.
Photo by Onart Studio.
MAZ Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico, 2023.
MAZ Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Jalisco, MExico, 2023.
MAZ Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Jalisco, MExico, 2023.
MAZ Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Jalisco, MExico, 2023.
The Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, United States, 2022-2023.
The Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, United States, 2022-2023.
The Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, United States, 2022-2023.
The Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, United States, 2022-2023.
The Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, United States, 2022-2023.
Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland, 2022.
Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland, 2022.
Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland, 2022.
Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland, 2022.
ARNOLFINI Arts, Bristol, UK, 2022.
ARNOLFINI Arts, Bristol, UK, 2022.
ARNOLFINI Arts, Bristol, UK, 2022.
ARNOLFINI Arts, Bristol, UK, 2022.
ARNOLFINI Arts, Bristol, UK, 2022.
ARNOLFINI Arts, Bristol, UK. On view until May 22, 2022.
ARNOLFINI Arts, Bristol, UK, 2022.
Travesía Cuatro CDMX, 2022.
Travesía Cuatro CDMX, 2022.
Travesía Cuatro CDMX, 2022.
Travesía Cuatro CDMX, 2022.
Travesía Cuatro CDMX, 2022.
Travesía Cuatro CDMX, 2022.
Travesía Cuatro CDMX, 2022.
Travesía Cuatro CDMX, 2022.
Ballroom Marfa, Texas, United States, 2021.
Ballroom Marfa, Texas, United States, 2021.
Ballroom Marfa, Texas, United States, 2021.
Ballroom Marfa, Texas, United States, 2021.
Ballroom Marfa, Texas, United States, 2021.
Ballroom Marfa, Texas, United States, 2021.
Ballroom Marfa, Texas, United States, 2021.
Ballroom Marfa, Texas, United States, 2021.
Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles, United States, 2019.
Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles, United States, 2019.
Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles, United States, 2019.
Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles, United States, 2019.
Copenhagen Contemporary, Copenhagen, Denmark. Curated by Aukje Lepoutre Ravn, 2019
Copenhagen Contemporary, Copenhagen, Denmark. Curated by Aukje Lepoutre Ravn, 2019.
Copenhagen Contemporary, Copenhagen, Denmark. Curated by Aukje Lepoutre Ravn, 2019.
Copenhagen Contemporary, Copenhagen, Denmark. Curated by Aukje Lepoutre Ravn, 2019.
Copenhagen Contemporary, Copenhagen, Denmark. Curated by Aukje Lepoutre Ravn, 2019.
Belvedere Museum, Vienna, Austria. Curated by Dr. Stella Rollig, 2018.
Belvedere Museum, Vienna, Austria. Curated by Dr. Stella Rollig, 2018.
Belvedere Museum, Vienna, Austria. Curated by Dr. Stella Rollig, 2018.
Belvedere Museum, Vienna, Austria. Curated by Dr. Stella Rollig, 2018.
Belvedere Museum, Vienna, Austria. Curated by Dr. Stella Rollig, 2018.
Belvedere Museum, Vienna, Austria. Curated by Dr. Stella Rollig, 2018.
Belvedere Museum, Vienna, Austria. Curated by Dr. Stella Rollig, 2018.
Belvedere Museum, Vienna, Austria. Curated by Dr. Stella Rollig, 2018.
Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China, 2018.
Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China, 2018.
Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China, 2018.
Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China, 2018.
Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China, 2018.
Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China, 2018.
Travesía Cuatro, Madrid, Spain, 2017.
Travesía Cuatro, Madrid, Spain, 2017.
Travesía Cuatro, Madrid, Spain, 2017.
Travesía Cuatro, Madrid, Spain, 2017.
Travesía Cuatro, Madrid, Spain, 2017.
Travesía Cuatro, Madrid, Spain, 2017.
Zabludowicz Collection, London, United Kingdom. Curated by Maitreyi Maheshwari, 2016.
Zabludowicz Collection, London, United Kingdom. Curated by Maitreyi Maheshwari, 2016
Art in General, New York in collaboration with kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, Latvia. Curated by Anne Barlow, 2015.
Art in General, New York in collaboration with kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, Latvia. Curated by Anne Barlow, 2015.
Art in General, New York in collaboration with kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, Latvia. Curated by Anne Barlow, 2015.
MoMA PS1, New York, United States, 2014.
MoMA PS1, New York, United States, 2014.
MoMA PS1, New York, United States, 2014.
MoMA PS1, New York, United States, 2014.
Donna Huanca (b. 1980 in Chicago, US) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice explores the human body and the natural world, through mark making, raw materials, immersive environments, and singular topographies. Encompassing painting, sculpture and live performance, as well as sound and scent works, Huanca’s installations are specially created for and intricately woven into the specific architectural spaces in which they are presented.
Inspired by Indigenous systems of communication, where objects serve as multi-purpose signifiers, Huanca uses objects and materials as repositories that aggregate and convey knowledge, information, and memory. Deeply rooted in communal practice and ritual, her kaleidoscopic practice creates shared spaces for transcendence, meditation, and transformation.
The performers Huanca commissions to inhabit her installations expand her non-static vocabulary and their painted skin becomes a major element in the composition. Huanca is interested in the fluidity of earthly cycles such as birth, decay, and renewal, and her impermanent paintings on the performers’ bodies are photographed, collaged, and manipulated into future works, masking and unmasking the traces of the human body beneath them. Through overlapping temporalities and narratives, Huanca’s multilayered works embody an allegory of both the fragmentation and connectedness of our shared human experience.
Donna Huanca studied at Städelschule, Frankfurt and was the recipient of the DAAD Artist Frankfurt and a Fullbright research grant.
In November 2025 she presented Explorations: Donna Huanca and the Temple of Dendur, a single performance comissiones by the Metropolitan Museum of New York.
Recent solo exhibitions include MINA DE AURA, CAAC Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Sevilla, Spain (2025); LAS NIÑAS DEL ALTIPLANO, Travesía Cuatro, Madrid, Spain (2025); MORTAL COIL, Number 1 Mainroad, Berlin, Germany (2024); UTOPIC CELLS, Zuzeum Art Centre, Riga, Latvia (2024); SKIN PAINTEENS, Nitsch Foundation, Vienna, Austria (2024); Scar Tissue (Blured Earth), Faurschou, New York, USA (2024); Ojos Obsidianos, MAZ, Zapopan, Mexico (2023); Portal de Plata, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK (2022); Aqua Sabia, Kiasma Museun, Helsinki, Finland (2021); Espejo Quemada, Ballroom Marfa, Texas, USA (2022); Cueva de Copal, Arnolfini Bristol, UK (2022); Lágrimas Secas, Travesía Cuatro CDMX, Mexico (2022); Obsidian Ladder, curated by Olivia Marciano, Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles, USA (2019); Lengua Llorona, Copenhagen Contemporary, Denmark (2019); Piedra Quemada, Belvedere Museum, Vienna, Austria (2018); Cell Echo, Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China (2018); Lengua de Bartolina Sisa, Travesía Cuatro Madrid, Spain (2017); Jaguar and electric Eels, Julia Stoschek Collection, Berlin, Germany (2017); Scar Cymbals, Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK (2016); Ice Chrysocolla, Cabaret der Künstler – Zunfthaus Voltaire, Manifesta 11, Zurich, Switzerland (2016); In collaboration with kim?, Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, Latvia and Sade Room (famously reclusive), Moma PS1, New York, USA.
Her work is part numerous collections worldwide, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, YUZ Museum, Shanghai, Rubell Museum, Miami, and Belvedere Museum, Vienna, among others.She is included in numerous international collections: Collections Solomon R. Guggenheim Collection, New York, United States; Zabludowicz Collection, London, United Kingdom; B.LA Foundation, Vienna, Austria; Espacio 1414/Berezdivin Collection, Santurce, Puerto Rico; Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles, United States; Rubell Family Collection, Miami, United States; Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing, China; Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China, among others.
2018. Belvedere Museum, Vienna, Austria. Curated by Dr. Stella Rollig.
2018. Belvedere Museum, Vienna, Austria. Curated by Dr. Stella Rollig.
2018. Belvedere Museum, Vienna, Austria. Curated by Dr. Stella Rollig.
2018. Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China.
2018. Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China.
The MET, New York | Donna Huanca
The MET will present Explorations – Donna Huanca and The Temple of Dendur, that includes a performance by the artist and a guided meditation on Friday, October 24, at 7:30 p.m. This immersive 30-minute program reimagines the iconic Egyptian monument as a living body, learn more about the project here.
FRIEZE MASTERS | Travesía Cuatro
Travesía Cuatro and Almeida & Dale present Eleonore Koch at Frieze Masters 2025. Find us ath Booth S09, The Regent’s Park, London, UK.
Private days: October 15 – 16
Public days: October 16 – 19
In this occasion, the curated selection of work spans Koch’s prolific period from 1960s to the 1980s, years deeply connected to her life in London.
Art Basel 2025 | Booth S07
Travesía Cuatro is delighted to take part in Art Basel 2025. For this edition, our booth includes works by Álvaro Urbano, Mariela Scafati, Donna Huanca, La Chola Poblete, Joeun Kim Aatchim, Tania Pérez Córdova, Teresa Solar Abboud, Manuel Solano, Willa Wasserman, Ángela de la Cruz, Gonzalo Lebrija, Alexandre Estrela, Jorge Eielson, Jorge Méndez Blake, Miriam Inez da Silva and. Eleonore Koch.
Find us at Booth S07, Messe Basel, Messeplatz 10, Basel, Switzerland.
PORTAL DE PLATA
Artist: Donna Huanca
Author: Donna Huanca
Christen Sveaas Art Foundation, Oslo, Norway | Whitechapel, London, United Kingdom, 2023
Womanology
Artists: Donna Huanca, Elena del Rivero.
Authors: Ángela Molina and Manuela Mena.
José Ramón Prieto Collection, 2021.
Piedra Quemada
Artist: Donna Huanca
Authors: Elysia Chuquimia Crampton, Isabelle Graw, Maike Hohn, Ana Petrović, Stella Rollig.
Belvedere, Vienna, 2018.
Scar Cymbals
Artist: Donna Huanca
Authors: Maitreyi Maheshwari, Kathy Noble, Hili Perlson, Venus Lau, Reba Maybury.
Zabludowicz Art Projects, London, 2016.
Lengua Llorona
Artist: Donna Huanca
Authors: Aukje Lepoutre Ravn, Marie Nipper.
Copenhagen Contemporary, 2019.
